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CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced the first trades of its new Physically Delivered Cocoa futures contract (contract code CCP), which were launched yesterday on its European exchange, CME Europe.

S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), one of the world’s leading providers of financial market indices, announced today the launch of two new indices: S&P GSCI Gold Inverse and S&P GSCI Silver Inverse. The two indices seek to provide the inverse returns... Read More...

China's apparent oil demand in February contracted 1% year over year to 40.7 million metric tons (mt), or an average 10.66 million barrels per day (b/d), according to a just-released Platts analysis of Chinese government data.

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Metals Focus is pleased to announce the inaugural publication of the Gold Focus, its new flagship annual report. It features comprehensive historical supply and demand statistics and a detailed forecast for 2015.

In a recent speech, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Andrew Haldane, raises the question as to whether the global economy is sitting at the cusp of a period of secular innovation (the optimist view) or secular stagnation (the pessimist view).

The EU is also the closest it has ever been to breakup. We all know the old story: If you owe the bank 100,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank 100 billion, the problem is no longer yours, but the bank’s.

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